Rubber band magic patter

[Filliana]

Hi everyone,

I've been doing rubber band magic for quite some time now and I have a small problem.
I have absolutely no problem developing patter for card/coin/general magic effects, but I *really* don't know what to say when performing a rubber band routine.

I'm currently working on my patter on every routine I perform, and I avoid just desribing what I'm doing (you know, the typical "I'm loosing the card in the middle of the deck, and when I snap my finger... *snap* It comes back to the top !"). But when it comes to rubber band, I have really a hard time giving a sens on what I do.

Let's take the very famous CMH. It's an incredible effect, but I can't help myself thinking "Why the hell would I do something like that ?". I tried to find a theme for rubber band routines, like "matter going through matter", but well... I'm not convinced, thus my audience is not convinced.

So, my question is : What would you advise as patter for rubber band magic ?

Thanks !

 

[BRoop13]

Here is exactly what I do with my rubberband routine. I wear the rubberbands on my wrist at all times. I sometimes use the joke "do you know why I wear rubberbands because their so much cheaper than a rollex" Or something like that. Than I will let them choose two of the many rubberbands on my wrist. Than ask them to examine the rubbers (kinda gets a laugh). My big motive for doing anything with rubberbands is stating how rare it is for magicians to do magic with rubberbands. I will say "magicians do magic with cards, money, and alot of other stuff but I like trying things a little bit different by using some things like these. Now only a very few amount of magicians out there will do magic with rubberbands from the amount of difficulty." I just set myself up by saying Im doing something really difficult amazing and exclusive so now they could care less of a reason for linking them and unlinking them they just want to see what's so great about rubberbands.

 

[AdamF]

For CMH I usually ask the audience if they know about Harry Houdini. I then talk about how he could escape a pair of handcuffs in the blink of an eye. I say "I'll try the same thing in the spirit of Houdini, But since it is Illegal for a 15 year old to buy or use handcuffs, I use rubber bands." Just be creative and I'm sure you'll come up with something. Hope this helps!

 

[Filliana]

It actually helps ! It gave me some ideas for some rubber band tricks Thanks !

I think the main difficulty remains on the shortness of the effects. Without a good patter, all I get is silent stares as they try to understand how the hell I did that. So I find it really harder to build a great reaction than with other props.
I mean, if I do a coin to jumbo coin transformation, I always get strong and loud reactions. When I do a card trick with a card to impossible location finale, it hits really, really hard. If I do sponge balls... Well, you all know the effect of sponge balls on a spectator.

I guess I have to develop a patter that allows me to build the moment, to create tension and so on.

 

[projoke1]

If you are doing something with linking rubberbands you can mention the linking rings and how this rubberband effect was inspired by that. I think i heard Marcus Eddie say that sometime in one of his DVDs.